New Sprint Music Store To Compete With iTunes
03.27.07 - 12:27pm
There was a time when iTunes was the only music service out there with cheap, only $0.99, songs available. Now, with the iPhone’s launch looming there is competition arising on every corner. Sprint has just upped the anty by announcing that all their 1.5 million mobile phone music downloads will be available in early April on their new Sprint Music Library Store.
Sprint has created the new music store to compete with the iPhone which won’t actually have a resident version of iTunes. You will have to connect the phone to your computer to download songs. Greg Joswiak said at the iPhone unvieling, “iTunes was designed to exist on the Mac and PCs. That’s where the music should live.†At the time of the statement however, iTunes was the only thing available, but with the new Sprint music store people will be able to access music anywhere - without a PC, a convienence that people are becoming accustomed to and may not want to then downgrade to the iPhone.
The Sprint Music Store will offer songs from EMI Music, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group as well as thousands of independent labels.
In addition to the $0.99 per song Sprint will also offer a focused music plan that will include commercial free radio stations as well as a mobile music video channel from Sprint TV.
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